stay-at-home

adjective

ˈstā-ət-ˈhōm 

: remaining in one's residence, locality, or country

especially : remaining at home especially to tend to children and domestic duties while a spouse is at work

stay-at-home noun

Examples of stay-at-home in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the start of episode 8, Cara, a reserved 29-year-old In-N-Out worker, had the cash in her box, while her bestie Samantha, a 41-year-old cop pretending to be a stay-at-home mom, had a clue that the secret millionaire was someone with two sisters. —Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025

But the drop-off was steep as stay-at-home orders lifted and consumers started spending on live events and travel rather than retail. —Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025

During the pandemic, ridership plummeted during the stay-at-home order. —Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025

The motif became newly relevant during the pandemic amid the stay-at-home measures and the increase in police-brutality videos that surfaced after George Floyd’s murder. —Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stay-at-home

• acrosome
• aerodrome
• catacomb
• centrosome
• chromosome
• cytochrome
• hippodrome
• honeycomb
• liposome
• meerschaum
• metronome
• microtome